Any conservative or Christian that submits his children to the pornographic, marxist, homosexual agenda that passes for curricula in the government schools is either badly misinformed, hopelessly optimistic, or just plain stupid.

Can we start a taxpayer revolution and just go ahead and refuse to pay school taxes? If there were only a legal way to do so without them slapping a lien tax against your property. I’ve pretty much figured out the only way to stop the beast is to starve it.

Red Hook is one of those places that answers the question about why the boundary line between Virginia and Acadia was never finished ~ the answer is, with a landmark like that, the surveyors simply didn't need to plant another benchmark for 200 miles!

So, Red Hook makes the news again ~ an out of the way spot ~ pristine in its simplicity ~ hmm.

Makes me think of those National Enquirer stories from the ends of the Earth. Then, looking down the list this morning ~ and the list always makes Saturday morning a special Freeper hot spot, I see this:

"New Jersey 2nd-grade teacher fired for making students empty bottles of his urine" followed by this:

Two Spanish men chopped off their own HANDS in £2million insurance scams...

> Can we start a taxpayer revolution and just go ahead and
> refuse to pay school taxes?

No, all that will do is eventually get someone killed.

The best way to deal with the government school collective is the best way to deal with a rogue business.

BOYCOTT

This has the dual benefit of making your taxes go down, because there are fewer seats being taken in the schools.

If all the conservatives, libertarians, Jews and Christians took their kids out of the government school collective, the economies of scale would start having a first-order effect, reducing everybody’s taxes.

They jumped all over the priest scandals and the molestation of innocent children. How is this different? It isn’t. I just bet these PERVERTS got a big kick out of watching little girls kissing. The pedophiles and perverts have given up the playground. They have entered the buildings with NEAs permission.

Vouchers are the solution to this and many other issues concerning public schools.Anyone know if the teachers’ unions have taken a stance on vouchers? How about Bill Ayers,this nation’s most respected educator (according to the Compost at least)?

Anymore, it’s the schools that are doing the bullying. And most parents are so afraid of being labeled a “homophobe” or some such, that they won’t speak up (or, they’re the brainwashed product of the system themselves and won’t see anything wrong with it).

Greg is absolutely right: there are lots o* stories like this emanating *rom the schools, which involve teachers setting up situations between students, all o them serving some progressive “educational” agenda, and all o* them suggesting
that the REAL agenda is the TEACHER’s own titillation at watching voyeuristically something they themselves have set up. Sort o like the story o Bill Ayers in college, who demanded that a girl he was “dating” also sleep with his black buddy to prove she wasn’t a racist. These people are sick, sick, sick!

My son is in a very good school right now, but if something like this were to happen I would be in touch with the PTB within 24 hours of the event.

I wish I had the ability to boycott school and homeschool my kids...but unfortunately, they have made that very costly and I can’t afford it. :(

There is one teacher that is causing me issues and I have called a meeting with the Principal, counselor and teacher to discuss options to change the way she treats children who are on a 504 plan due to having a condition that affects his hands/wrists and fingers.

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posted on 04/27/2013 7:52:51 AM PDT
by trussell
(I carry because...When seconds count between life and death, the police are only minutes away)

Shouldn’t this be considered corrupting the morals of a minor? Shouldn’t these teachers and staff be investigated to see if they are pedophiles. If the local DA’s won’t do anything, should’t parents hire an “amulance chaser” lawyer and give the school something to think about.

> I wish I had the ability to boycott school and homeschool
> my kids...but unfortunately, they have made that very
> costly and I cant afford it. :(

How much are your kids worth? How much are you willing to sacrifice for your kids? Are you willing to move? You can find very low-cost housing in rural or urban America. You just probably won’t be able to afford the suburbs.

You may think your kids are in a “good school”, but all schools are run by the government and are staffed with union operatives and communist sympathizers. The fact that there are occasional exceptions does not detract from the reality that the overwhelming preponderance of the teaching in the government school is to make your kids happy little slaves to the totalitarian state, and that whatever the state says is good is good, and whatever it says is bad is bad.

We are not entering Orwell’s “1984” so much as we are entering Huxley’s “Brave New World”. If you haven’t read it, then you must. Also, “Stranger in a Strange Land.”

“If all the conservatives, libertarians, Jews and Christians took their kids out of the government school collective, the economies of scale would start having a first-order effect, reducing everybodys taxes.”

I wish you were correct on this. My fear is they would just hire more bureaucrats and guidance counselors. No level of government easily gives up taxes once they have been enacted.

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posted on 04/27/2013 8:13:37 AM PDT
by Soul of the South
(Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)

Can we start a taxpayer revolution and just go ahead and refuse to pay school taxes? If there were only a legal way to do so without them slapping a lien tax against your property. Ive pretty much figured out the only way to stop the beast is to starve it.

I agree. I've been looking for a concerted effort on this front, but it's hard to find any.

Homeschooling is hard. Vouchers for private schools would be better, but even Freepers scream about them. It's tough.

My shcool offered a class called “Future Sudies” where we read those books and more. I hand out copies of “Animal Farm” to friends I think are ready to have their eyes opened, but most are blissfully unaware.

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posted on 04/27/2013 8:45:31 AM PDT
by ez
(Muslims do not play well with others.)

You have to get the approved books, work sheets and tests...you have to pay the fees in order to homeschool...you have to participate in the state mandated tests (CRCT), and for those you have to travel to the approved testing site. It’s very costly to homeschool, and unfortunately...I am unable to pay that kind of money right now. I recently had back surgery and have not been released to return to work so no-one will hire me at the moment. Not to mention, the horrible economy under Obama hasn’t done much for creating jobs for the millions who are out of work.

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posted on 04/29/2013 12:53:42 PM PDT
by trussell
(I carry because...When seconds count between life and death, the police are only minutes away)

I asked the question because I wondered if the Obama administration was using a backdoor for his educational agenda (making homeschooling so expensive, thus forcing parents to keep children in public schools) like he has been doing with so many other items on his agenda.

He is doing the same with CommonCore curriculum -— a backdoor indoctrination program into progressive/socialist/Marxist ideology.

I hope you make a complete recovery. Thanks again

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posted on 04/29/2013 1:12:04 PM PDT
by thouworm
(DEMOGOGUE: leader who makes use of prejudices, false claims and promises to gain power.)

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

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posted on 07/31/2013 5:29:04 PM PDT
by metmom
(For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)

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